"This hits home. And you have outlined why I can't write "trans" without the sneer-quotes."
Actually it was a conversation with you that got me thinking a bit more deeply about this. "Trans" had always been the term I used, just because it was a commonly understood term, but a while back, you said something along the lines of "trans-what?…
"This hits home. And you have outlined why I can't write "trans" without the sneer-quotes."
Actually it was a conversation with you that got me thinking a bit more deeply about this. "Trans" had always been the term I used, just because it was a commonly understood term, but a while back, you said something along the lines of "trans-what?" when I wrote "trans" and I thought, "hmm, that's a fair point."
I'm trying to figure out a way to talk about trans people which makes this nuance more explicit. I'd like to use the term "transsexual" for people who actually have gender dysphoria, but that's been deemed a slur by the "nouveau-trans" and their allies, so I don't want to get into a bunch of needless bickering about it.
It was not that many years ago when the three terms I mentioned were what they called themselves; I've been told, frostily, that "transvestite" is now regarded as a slur. Well, all three words are still in the medical lexicon and that means more to me than do pronouncements by people who won't honor my request to not be called "queer," so they can f the f off.
Even dysphoria is a replacement for GID, as if the condition is not a disorder. It would seem to me that people who urgently desire what amounts to surgical mutilation have a disorder. OK, not a big deal, the same DSM took homosexuality out of the disorder category in 1974; win some, lose some.
I do hope the backlash you wrote about in Medium (without getting banned, astonishingly) comes to pass real soon now.
"This hits home. And you have outlined why I can't write "trans" without the sneer-quotes."
Actually it was a conversation with you that got me thinking a bit more deeply about this. "Trans" had always been the term I used, just because it was a commonly understood term, but a while back, you said something along the lines of "trans-what?" when I wrote "trans" and I thought, "hmm, that's a fair point."
I'm trying to figure out a way to talk about trans people which makes this nuance more explicit. I'd like to use the term "transsexual" for people who actually have gender dysphoria, but that's been deemed a slur by the "nouveau-trans" and their allies, so I don't want to get into a bunch of needless bickering about it.
We definitely need better terminology though.
It was not that many years ago when the three terms I mentioned were what they called themselves; I've been told, frostily, that "transvestite" is now regarded as a slur. Well, all three words are still in the medical lexicon and that means more to me than do pronouncements by people who won't honor my request to not be called "queer," so they can f the f off.
Even dysphoria is a replacement for GID, as if the condition is not a disorder. It would seem to me that people who urgently desire what amounts to surgical mutilation have a disorder. OK, not a big deal, the same DSM took homosexuality out of the disorder category in 1974; win some, lose some.
I do hope the backlash you wrote about in Medium (without getting banned, astonishingly) comes to pass real soon now.